Here's one that would probably go over better: Bet your API usage.
TweepMe
· 3 months ago
This is a load of crap. They would have to authenticate as the follower being bet, not the person betting them in order for the winners to get followers. The API is not set up in this way. The social experiment is probably to see WHO would actually play.
Ben Parr
· 3 months ago
TweepMe - we think that the API's been hacked to make this work.
TweepMe
· 3 months ago
I have a feeling that they make other users of betmyfollowers.com follow you. Watch your sample count and see if the number of Tweeps you follow goes up without you playing.
There's no way to hack the API to take over an account which didn't authenticate and force them to follow someone else. Twitter would be ruined if that was the case. However, they could fake it and make it look like you got one of their followers.
Jake Mates
· 3 months ago
They immediately block and then unblock the the follower.
I'd never gamble ANY of my followers, except for the OBVIOUS spam bots. So, if you go up against me, you're getting spammers!
But seriously, I do like the humbleness of the creators, at least they know it will be taken down.
Tad Wolfe
· 3 months ago
Would I gamble true followers NO, but everyone has spammers and business I am sure you could risk once.
Marc Mulhern
· 3 months ago
this sounds more like a 'you think we could hack the API? I bet we could' type conversation over a few beers. Their premise of social currency seems shady, but nice hackery!
I'd neither play this nor be happy to be "lost" as a follower. I only follow people whose tweets interest me or inform me in some way. If I'm suddenly following someone I didn't choose to follow, I'd unfollow them.
I'd probably figure out who "lost" me and follow them again. I might also send them a message so they knew I didn't like being gambled away. Playing this game seems to me to be disrespectful of one's followers.
Jason Simms
· 3 months ago
I think there's a glitch with this app. It lets me "play" against any and all of the people I follow. I just stole followers from Slash and Weezer who I'm pretty sure aren't actually online right now battling me and most likely don't even have this app.
Man In The Field
· 3 months ago
I'd gamble with spambots...but not my real life followers...
eltonlester
· 3 months ago
I think this would work better on facebook where having more 'friends' than your friends is important to some.
MarkD
· 3 months ago
I might have missed it, but does it allow you to decide who to bet? Or is it random choice/forced? Just curious as it would change my opinion of the App.
Erik Michaels-Ober
· 3 months ago
As it says on the Bet Your Followers home page, you can "Choose who you risk."
Joe Anello
· 3 months ago
72% of my followers are spambots, lets gamble!
steve_mobs
· 3 months ago
wow if anyone actually finds this fun and will spend time betting followers then they should just shoot themselves.
Stephen Ratner
· 3 months ago
I don't completely understand how you can get more followers if you win...?
Trigeia Twins
· 3 months ago
What a creative app. we love it its to bad that they cant ride the twitter wave and not have problems because of violations. Not sure we would use it afraid of losing our dear followers Top Ten Twitter Apps For Mobile Devices http://www.trigeia.com/article.php?id=40423
Beiruta
· 3 months ago
Absolutely NOT!
james
· 3 months ago
Followers does not equate to currency but can be considered as an investment. Investment in a sense that you can sell to them, get motivated by them, received new ideas from them, or even build an army to take down a country.
But a leader/business person wouldn't sell/gamble his leads to another unless the business is already going down.
Just my opinion.
By the way the article has an interesting insight. More power.
Crasher Squirrel
· 3 months ago
I'm honestly getting burnt out on Twitter. Chasing after celebrities was a big mistake.... Facebook is kicking their asses....
Igor Kheifets
· 3 months ago
WOW, never would thought I'd see such a thing occur. The game looks fun (look at the guerilla's bottom) but it sure is unethical and against the terms of use.
Igor
niczar
· 3 months ago
> Many Twitter users could care less if they have 10 or 10,000 followers,
I disagree. I believe most Twitter users do not care at all, and therefore could *not* care less.
Doubledown Tandino
· 3 months ago
This app is no good to have around. Each twitter user chooses who they follow. It can not be determined by someone else who an individual follows. If I click "follow" on a twitter account, I expect to follow that one account. I do not expect that there is a method where I could be transferred over and then automatically follow someone I did not want to. I like the concept but I hope this app and anything like it is removed quickly. I can see bots taking control of this app.
How about loser automatically retweets the winners next tweet?
The only way this gamble app will work is if the only people involved are the players.
BostonBevs
· 3 months ago
i played this game before and my account was disabled after i won. these guys either a) changed their account or b) stole the idea from the people that got my account suspended.
nwjerseyliz
· 3 months ago
It's an interesting social experiment. But most people/followers don't want to be objects in someone else's experiment.
I certainly don't want to have to have to follow someone who "won" me and I can't imagine it's valid by Twitter's TOU to force people to follow someone they haven't chosen to follow.
Noreen Mastellon
· 3 months ago
What exactly is the purpose of Bet Your Followers? Doesn't this ultimately defeat the purpose of what tweeting stands for?
Donagh Mc Sweeney
· 3 months ago
It's a social experiment. The artilcle explains everything clearly!
Qapacity
· 3 months ago
It's the perfect app for those times when you feel down and you're all like "the heck with it" I guess. When you're going to quit your (social media) job etc.
And the graphics are nice:)
Donagh Mc Sweeney
· 3 months ago
An interesting app. I won't be using it but I can see why they developed it. People are far too concerned with followers. People look and see that they have 100 followers and get pissed off that they don't have 500. Why? You've got 100 people listening to what you're saying!! You've got an audience! If you want to grow it engage with others and give back to the commnuity!
smartie
· 3 months ago
I just found this site that shows you a way of getting 1000's of new followers on twitter, I just started using it myself and it's starting to work already. :)
The concept behind this is indeed interesting, but I completely agree with your opinion of it. I would use this for one reason and one reason only: to get rid of the spammers who follow me, instead of simply blocking them, in the hopes that I would get actual people who might even be interesting and worth following back. I realize what a long shot that is, though, for who's to say that the majority of people using this app aren't using it the same way as I would?
Gioword
· 3 months ago
I think it’s a really interesting topic.
But also a fine topic to get an idea of today’s online discussion. I wonder if and how many comments this article gets.
And what does that say? That we care? Or do we consume daily news as we consume our bread: thoughtless? Is ‘what’s new and interesting‘ determined by our own followers, or do we still rely on well known sources; sites and bloggers with the most followers?
In that respect, it makes sense to question the ‘currency‘ of ‘followers’.
And there’s another thing: the intruiging Power of Numbers. Weight. Mass. Depth. As the makers of Bet Your Followers wrote: “we’ve watched the race to accrue followers become a strange obsession.” The search for followers may stand for the archetypical desire to gather an army to conquer the world, or to build a stronghold to hide behind.
If so, a game like Bet Your Followers may well be the start of a new kind of online strategic games, with a highly realistic touch. Speaking about shocking, remember the game “World Domination” from the James Bond movies?
zzdinko
· 3 months ago
OMgosh no way dude, right when you thought good ole Tweet couldnt get any better!
First, this game cannot "take" your followers. It can only fake it. Here's how it works:
1. It can make you "lose" followers by blocking and then unblocking them. This causes a follower to not be following you anymore.
2. It can make you "gain" followers by using the people who play the game as pawns. Essentially, once you've played the game, the game now has access to your account and can make you follow anybody it wants. So you're now the currency on the other end. When you "win", it takes other people who have played the game and makes them follow you.
If you play, then you will end up following other people who play and won you. If you don't play, then it can't ever make you follow somebody else.
Yes, you can bet your spammer followers, but be warned! Playing this game means you will be used to follow other people. Your followers are not the currency, you are. If you played and don't want to get follow random people in the future, disconnect the app by going to http://twitter.com/account/connections and removing it!
Darren Dewey
· 3 months ago
What's so "interesting" in this? Of course some people will be all too happy to risk followers. There's nothing new about some folks regarding people as a commodity. Armies have been doing it forever, or haven't you ever heard of the term "acceptable losses?"
I figure this will fall into 3 main groups, all represented in this thread: 1) People who won't participate for whatever reason. 2) People who are curious and may check it out, but will only risk "spambots." 3) People who will jump in with both feet.
If Twitter were smart, they'd axe this app a.s.a.p. It violates their ToS and they need to keep that iron-clad or risk other abuses in the future.
BlitzWing00
· 3 months ago
I would never play this type of game with my followers, and I even have stronger feelings should the people I follow decide to play this game and lost. If I ended up following somebody else because I was gambled away, I'd be somewhat mad at the person I followed for gambling me....but I would have an Extreme Animosity towards the App that allowed this to happen in the first place.
It's like your bookmarks in your browser....imagine if your bookmarks changed to a random link and you couldn't find the original link again. You then missed content from the original link. On top that you didn't agree to any of this, and it happens unbeknownst to you. You'd be pissed when you found out wouldn't you?
Note: I was going to explain what I meant by "Extreme Animosity", but it kept coming out way too hostile....suffice to say, I would not be amused. =)
hurtzsogood
· 3 months ago
I have to admit and especially because I have a site, work a full time job, and real life shows up from time to time, that I don't interact with my twitter followers the way I should. With all the apps that gaurentee hundreds of twitter follower a day alot of people/companies do view followers as currency. I don't seek follower they usually come to me, maybe because I use an auto tweet app(shame on me), but this is an eye opener. To hear that the interaction is more valuable than the number of followers then I have work to do. As far as an app that allows you to gamble followers I BET it catches on. hurtzsogood
All Comments
There's no way to hack the API to take over an account which didn't authenticate and force them to follow someone else. Twitter would be ruined if that was the case. However, they could fake it and make it look like you got one of their followers.
Do people trust you?
I'd never gamble ANY of my followers, except for the OBVIOUS spam bots. So, if you go up against me, you're getting spammers!
But seriously, I do like the humbleness of the creators, at least they know it will be taken down.
I'd probably figure out who "lost" me and follow them again. I might also send them a message so they knew I didn't like being gambled away. Playing this game seems to me to be disrespectful of one's followers.
Top Ten Twitter Apps For Mobile Devices
http://www.trigeia.com/article.php?id=40423
But a leader/business person wouldn't sell/gamble his leads to another unless the business is already going down.
Just my opinion.
By the way the article has an interesting insight. More power.
The game looks fun (look at the guerilla's bottom) but it sure is unethical and against the terms of use.
Igor
I disagree. I believe most Twitter users do not care at all, and therefore could *not* care less.
I like the concept but I hope this app and anything like it is removed quickly. I can see bots taking control of this app.
How about loser automatically retweets the winners next tweet?
The only way this gamble app will work is if the only people involved are the players.
I certainly don't want to have to have to follow someone who "won" me and I can't imagine it's valid by Twitter's TOU to force people to follow someone they haven't chosen to follow.
And the graphics are nice:)
of getting 1000's of new followers on twitter,
I just started using it myself and it's
starting to work already. :)
http://ViralFollowers.com/smartiewriter/vu
Thought it might interest you.
But also a fine topic to get an idea of today’s online discussion. I wonder if and how many comments this article gets.
And what does that say? That we care? Or do we consume daily news as we consume our bread: thoughtless? Is ‘what’s new and interesting‘ determined by our own followers, or do we still rely on well known sources; sites and bloggers with the most followers?
In that respect, it makes sense to question the ‘currency‘ of ‘followers’.
And there’s another thing: the intruiging Power of Numbers. Weight. Mass. Depth. As the makers of Bet Your Followers wrote: “we’ve watched the race to accrue followers become a strange obsession.” The search for followers may stand for the archetypical desire to gather an army to conquer the world, or to build a stronghold to hide behind.
If so, a game like Bet Your Followers may well be the start of a new kind of online strategic games, with a highly realistic touch. Speaking about shocking, remember the game “World Domination” from the James Bond movies?
RT
www.web-tools.us.tc
Something else I know is that NO ONE can DO the following! Nobody..
http://concretelyambiguous.com/i-told-you-so/be...
1. It can make you "lose" followers by blocking and then unblocking them. This causes a follower to not be following you anymore.
2. It can make you "gain" followers by using the people who play the game as pawns. Essentially, once you've played the game, the game now has access to your account and can make you follow anybody it wants. So you're now the currency on the other end. When you "win", it takes other people who have played the game and makes them follow you.
If you play, then you will end up following other people who play and won you. If you don't play, then it can't ever make you follow somebody else.
Yes, you can bet your spammer followers, but be warned! Playing this game means you will be used to follow other people. Your followers are not the currency, you are. If you played and don't want to get follow random people in the future, disconnect the app by going to http://twitter.com/account/connections and removing it!
I figure this will fall into 3 main groups, all represented in this thread:
1) People who won't participate for whatever reason.
2) People who are curious and may check it out, but will only risk "spambots."
3) People who will jump in with both feet.
If Twitter were smart, they'd axe this app a.s.a.p. It violates their ToS and they need to keep that iron-clad or risk other abuses in the future.
It's like your bookmarks in your browser....imagine if your bookmarks changed to a random link and you couldn't find the original link again. You then missed content from the original link. On top that you didn't agree to any of this, and it happens unbeknownst to you. You'd be pissed when you found out wouldn't you?
Note: I was going to explain what I meant by "Extreme Animosity", but it kept coming out way too hostile....suffice to say, I would not be amused. =)
hurtzsogood